A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 80
ie Seraphic Order,and was styled il Dot-tore Scrafico. His fameis not confined to hisOrder, as he is consid-ered one of the bright-est lights of the wholeRoman Catholic Church.His name was GiovanniFidanoja, and he wasborn at Bagnarea in Tus-cany, in 1221. In hisinfancy he was so ill thathis life… … (Raphael.) St. Bonaventura. in study was amazing, and at twenty-two he became a Franciscan,and went to Paris to study theology. He soon became celebrated,but his humility was so great that he felt unworthy to receive thesacrament, and it is taught in the legends that the Host was pre-sented to him…
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